1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829173003321

Autore

Tomchuk Travis

Titolo

Transnational radicals : Italian anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915-1940 / / Travis Tomchuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winnipeg, Manitoba : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-88755-482-2

0-88755-484-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Studies in Immigration and Culture ; ; 13

Disciplina

335.830973

Soggetti

Anarchism - United States - History - 20th century

Anarchism - Canada - History - 20th century

Anarchists - Canada - History - 20th century

Anarchists - United States - History - 20th century

Italians - Canada - History - 20th century

Italians - United States - History - 20th century

Transnationalism - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Anarchism and the Italian Tradition -- Chapter 2 Migrant Anarchists -- Chapter 3 Anarchist Culture -- Chapter 4 Anarchist Identity Formation -- Chapter 5 Factional Disputes -- Chapter 6 Deportation Struggles -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country's long and bloody unification. Often facing economic hardship and political persecution, many of Italy's anarchists migrated to North America. Wherever Italian anarchists settled they published journals, engaged in labour and political activism, and attempted to re-create the radical culture of their homeland. Transnational Radicals examines the transnational anarchist movement that existed in Canada and the United States between 1915 and 1940. Against a backdrop of brutal and open class war-with governments calling upon militias to suppress strikes, radicals thrown in jail for



publicly speaking against capitalism and the church, and those of foreign birth being deported and even executed for political activities-Italian anarchism was successfully transplanted. Transnationalism made it more difficult for states to destroy groups spread across wide geographical spaces. In Italy and abroad the strong anarchist identity informed by class, ethnicity, and gender reinforced movement values, promoted movement expansion, and assisted mobilization during times of crisis. In Transnational Radicals, Tomchuk makes use of Italian government security files and Italian-language anarchist newspapers to reconstruct a vibrant and little-studied political movement during a tumultuous period of modern North American history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910502995003321

Titolo

Anthropogenic Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems / / edited by Donat-P. Häder, E. Walter Helbling, Virginia E. Villafañe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-75602-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 pages)

Collana

Earth and Environmental Science Series

Disciplina

628.168

Soggetti

Pollution

Biotic communities

Freshwater ecology

Marine ecology

Environment

Biology

Ecosystems

Freshwater and Marine Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Pollution affecting cyanobacteria in aquatic habitats -- 3. Effects of pollution on fish -- 4. Effects of pollution in aquatic food chains -- 5. Pollution in the Arctic Ocean -- 6. Contamination of coral reefs in the Mexican Caribbean.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides examples of pollutants, such as accidental oil spills and non-degradable plastic debris, which affect marine organisms of all taxa. Terrestrial runoff washes large amounts of dissolved organic materials from agriculture and industry, toxic heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and persistent organic pollutants which end up into rivers, coastal habitats, and open waters. While this book is not intended to encyclopaedically list all kinds of pollution, it rather exemplifies the problems by concentrating on a number of serious and prominent recent developments. The chapters in this book also discuss measures to decrease and remove aquatic pollution to mitigate the stress on aquatic organisms. Aquatic ecosystems provide a wide range of ecological and economical services. In addition to providing a large share of the staple diet for a fast growing human population, oceans absorb most of the anthropogenically emitted carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change. As well as rising temperatures and ocean acidification, pollution poses increasing problems for aquatic ecosystems and organisms reducing its functioning and services which are exposed to a plethora of stress factors.